Good Quote by Michael Portillo

I was politically complacent during the Blair years. Things were good and people thought things would be good forever.

— Jess Phillips

I left the Labour Party because I consider it a racist endeavour. I could no longer, in good faith, knock on doors and say…

— Luciana Berger

Leaving government and leaving the office of first minister was hard. It's not just the circumstance because I've always believed that as soon as…

— Humza Yousaf

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

— Emma Bonino

I didn't become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country... I want to see popular…

— Liz Truss

I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Oh, I could never leave the Labour party. I could no longer leave the Labour party than leave my own family.

— Liz Kendall

Leaving Labour was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do and it was not a cause of jubilation or happiness.…

— Chuka Umunna

I was interested in the ideas - freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That's why I became a Tory.

— Liz Truss

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic…

— Charlie Crist

I quit politics because I hated it.

— Roger Ailes

Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.

— Justin Trudeau